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05 Dec, 2025 0

Cedric Stephens | Should taxpayers bear the burden of under-insured businesses?

‘SBAJ sounds SOS. Small businesses call for cash aid, loan freezes to jump-start commerce’. That statement summarises a request for help by the Small Business Association of Jamaica’s president to…
05 Dec, 2025 0

Oran Hall | Putting debt under manners at year end

Christmas and the days around it are merry-but-costly days which can potentially bring harm to your financial well-being, even if there is additional income. Truth be told, it does not have to be that…
Letters
05 Dec, 2025 0

Letter of the Day | Teachers are doing their part, students must do theirs

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing in response to the article titled ‘Math whiz says fun learning yields top results’, published on November 16. There is no doubt that Mijaun Talbot deserves his roses…
05 Dec, 2025 0

St Mary man charged in armed robbery of motorcyclist

A 22-year-old construction worker of Gully Road, Boscobel, St Mary, has been charged in relation to the armed robbery of a motorcyclist along the Charles Town main road last year. The accused,…
FILE - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters in downtown San Francisco on July 28, 2023.
05 Dec, 2025 0

EU hits Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's social media law

(AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros (US$140 million) for breaches of the bloc’s digital regulations that they said could leave users…
Letters
05 Dec, 2025 0

Ena Collymore-Woodstock was a trailblazer

THE EDITOR, Madam: The name Ena Collymore-Woodstock jumped out at me as I read The Gleaner’s online edition. I hadn’t heard or seen that name in years! And yet, I immediately had images of that lady…
Letters
05 Dec, 2025 0

Jamaica’s diaspora is untapped development engine

THE EDITOR, Madam: We measure remittances in dollars, yet seldom in dreams deferred, skills exported, or innovation lost to distance. Jamaica’s diaspora, over 1.1 million strong — nearly 29 per cent…
Aerial view of Djibo town, Burkina Faso on February 18, 2021.
05 Dec, 2025 0

Burkina Faso plans to restore death penalty for treason, terrorism, espionage

(AP) — Burkina Faso’s Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to restore the death penalty, targeting offenses such as treason, terrorism, and espionage, authorities said. “The adoption of this bill…